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About: The Avis client library is a Java API for clients accessing Elvin
event routers, including the open source Avis event router and the
commercial Mantara Elvin product. It fulfills the same role as Mantara's
"je4" library, but is a more modern Java 5 API.

Changes: This release fixes three errors and adds a number of small
improvements to the API.

About: bashcritic is a tool to check bash scripts for common pitfalls.

Changes: Rules are not checked in comments and strings. Warnings are no
longer grouped by type but sorted by line number. New checks were added. A
bug in which --help was ignored was fixed. The shebang is now patched by
Makefile.PL/make.

About: Cego implements a relational and transactional database system with
support for the SQL query language. The current release contains the most
common database features for basic table manipulation and data retrieval.
Indexes, foreign keys, views, and stored procedures are also implemented.
Future releases (2.0 and above) will support a multi-node database concept
with log file shipping for an automatic database application failover.

Changes: This release offers some features for distributed tableset
management. It also fixes several bugs regarding the existing features.

About: Clonezilla-SysRescCD is a Linux multi boot backup/restore and
rescue CD, combining "Clonezilla Live" and "SystemRescueCD" in one CD.
Clonezilla-SysRescCD provides both a CD ISO and a tar archive of the
source code to create and customize it yourself.

Changes: A continue-multi-cd script was added to SysRescCD. This script
makes it easy to continue a multi-session CD.

About: EasyBeans is an implementation of an EJB3 container. It aims to
provide an implementation for the full EJBCore API. For the persistence
matter, it relies on Hibernate EJB 3, Oracle TopLink Essentials, or Apache
OpenJPA.

Changes: The project now uses the maven2 tool. It can be used in
Tomcat/Jetty or JOnAS. OSGi bundles are available and were tested on
Apache Felix and Eclipse Equinox. Persistence is done with Hibernate
EntityManager or Apache OpenJPA.

Changes: A RAR archiver plugin was implemented. Some fixes were made for
x86-64. The Converter UI plugin double-free bug was fixed. A stricter
MIT-SHM check was added. MIT-SHM must be disabled for remote display.

About: Gaupol is a subtitle editor for text-based subtitles. It supports
multiple subtitle file formats and provides means for text corrections and
time manipulations. Its user interface is designed with attention to batch
processing of multiple documents and convenient translating.

Changes: This release fixes tag conversions that removed text and spacing
issues in open and save dialogs.

About: gCAD3D is a 3D CAD-CAM application that features an integrated 3D
OpenGL viewer, a program interpreter for geometry and NC-commands in 3D,
an integrated NC-processor, and a programming interface for user programs.
It has support for importing Step files and support for both importing and
exporting Iges, DXF, and VRML files.

Changes: Support for importing meshes from Landmark XML files was added.
Model files can now be compressed with with gzip. Circles can now be
generated from a start point, tangent, and radius, and vectors generated
tangential to curves. An Iges import bug with Qmax/Qflex3D files was fixed
along with a VRML2 export bug with big surfaces and a DXF import bug that
limited input objects to 10000.

About: H2 is an SQL database engine written in Java that implements the
JDBC API. Embedded, server, and clustering modes are available. A Web
based console application is included. The database has strong security
features and an experimental ODBC driver. Disk based and in-memory
databases and tables are supported.

Changes: User defined aggregate functions are not supported. The CSV tool
has been improved. Linked tables in non-default schemas are now supported.
The Console application was translated to Italian. Stack traces with SQL
statements are now shorter. Problems with prepared statements and XA
connections have been fixed.

About: Hotwire is intended to replace the interactive command execution
portion of a typical Unix shell. It includes much of the functionality
found in the combination of a terminal emulator, a shell, and core
utilities like ls and grep. Most of the commands are named the same, and
do basically the same thing. Where it makes sense, Hotwire improves the
commands to have better defaults and makes things nicer by using the
mouse, and so on. For example, rm moves files to ~/.Trash on Unix and
Recycle Bin on Windows, cd automatically lists the contents of the
directory you change to, ls links are clickable (view file or cd to
directory), filter (analogous to Unix grep) shows matching text in bold,
and the ps process list has right-click menu for killing.

Changes: Major UI rework was done. Many bugs were fixed. Keybindings,
globs, and command resolution were added.

About: IKEv2 is an implementation of the Internet Key Exchange protocol
version 2. It is still in development, and currently targeted/developed on
Fedora Core 5. Other Unix-like operating system are left for a later stage
of development.

Changes: Bugfixes and feature enhancements were made. There are also some
manual page updates. On the project's Web pages there are premastered
VMware images and configuration files to make it easier for anyone to try
ikev2.

Changes: A few fixes and stability backports from the 1.2 trunk were made.
m_ident was refactored so that it should finally adress stability issues
some setups encountered with it. Failover linking was fixed (it shouldn't
cause splits unnecessarily now). The Windows GUI was improved so that it
gives detailed feedback on configuration errors. Some sockets will no
longer block on some operating systems. CHGIDENT is now also silent when
issued from U:Lines, for Anope users.

Changes: This release corrects a serious bug that allowed sufficiently
privileged users to crash Services. Those who are using any previous
release of Services 5.1 should upgrade to this release immediately.

Changes: Most utilities were re-released under the GPL version 3. The
tempname utility now features a -D option which can be used to create a
temporary directory instead of a temporary file. The -q option was removed
from the realpath utility. It now operates in quiet mode always unless
explicitly called to do otherwise with the -v option.

About: lnkMusic is a powerful and easy-to-use interface for MPD (Music
Player Daemon). It features playlist sorting and a system tray item that
lets you control MPD without having to open the main window. The tag
browser is similar to the one in amarok with an integrated search engine.

Changes: The dynamic tray icon was corrected. A small bug was corrected:
sometimes the playlist window kept scrolling even if the dragging method
stopped. A small but important bug was corrected: the add function didn't
add the files if the tags are already present in between. The riconnection
after an error works correctly. When dragging items with an empty playlist,
the program crashed with a bad row index. The playlistinfo in the status
bar is now correctly displayed.

About: Logtalk is an object-oriented logic programming language that can
use most Prolog implementations as a back-end compiler. As a
multi-paradigm language, it includes support for both prototypes and
classes, protocols, component-based programming through category-based
composition, event-driven programming, and multi-threading programming.

Changes: This improves support for multi-threading programming and
Unicode, renames several compiler options for clarity, adds syntax
coloring support for GtkSourceView 2, and includes workarounds for
problems with the Logtalk built-in debugger and compiler when using some
back-end Prolog compilers.

About: Mercurial is a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system
designed for the efficient handling of very large distributed projects.

Changes: This release handles symlinks on systems without symlink support.
The hg archive now supports symlinks. hg verify diagnostics were improved.
Faster revlog handling and faster handling of large directories were
implemented. The handling of large files was greatly improved. Atom
syndication is now supported in hgweb. The test suite was improved with
parallel execution.

About: Netwatch allows a user to monitor an Ethernet segment or PPP line
and examine activity on the network. Hostnames are highlighted in colours
to indicate activity on the bus network based on time. The monitor
includes statistics on transmitted and received packets, transmitted and
received bytes, protocol of last packet (TX or RC), last communication
partner (IP address) and Logging entire stats to an ASCII file. There is a
TOP mode which allows a sorted list of hosts based on IP usage. All info is
updated on a per second basis.

About: With 'nixstaller' you can easily make installers for Unix-like
systems. Some of the project goals: support for many different platforms,
support for different (optional) frontends used by the installer
(currently FLTK, ncurses, GTK 2, and Qt are planned), ease of use for the
install creator and the end user, different ways of installing (extract
files to a location, compile software on the user's system, and maybe even
integration for the package manager running on the user's system).
Nixstaller can be fully translated and is programmed in C++ and sh.

Changes: This release adds a new GTK+ 2 frontend, more lua scripting
functionality such as tracking widget data and five new widgets, a more
automated way of creating project directories, support for even more
operating systems, and many other features and bugfixes.

About: onPHP is an object-oriented framework aimed at rapid development of
scalable robust applications with outstanding code reusability level. It
also provides code generation tools to save your time, and a PHP extension
(module) to save the CPU time of your servers.

Changes: A minor platform-specific bugfix in the Cache package was
backported from the trunk.

About: Pantheios is a C/C++ logging API library. It offers an optimal
combination of complete type-safety, very high efficiency, genericity, and
extensibility. It is simple to use and extend, highly portable (platform
and compiler independent), and it upholds the C tradition of only paying
for what you use. Pantheios supports logging of message statements of
arbitrary complexity, consisting of heterogenous types. Pantheios supports
filtering of log messages based on severity level.

Changes: PANTHEIOS_SEV_xxx was changed from enumerators to SEV_xxx
enumerators, and the corresponding PANTHEIOS_SEV_xxx was #defined. The
implementation of pantheios::level "constant classes" was changed to avoid
dynamic initialization ordering problems. The code in the test tree was
tidied up, bringing all to the same naming convention and relative
directory path structure.

About: The Port Scan Attack Detector (psad) is a collection of three
system daemons that are designed to work with the Linux iptables
firewalling code to detect port scans and other suspect traffic. It
features a set of highly configurable danger thresholds (with sensible
defaults), verbose alert messages, email alerting, DShield reporting, and
automatic blocking of offending IP addresses. Psad incorporates many of
the packet signatures included in Snort to detect various kinds of
suspicious scans, and implements the same passive OS fingerprinting
algorithm used by p0f.

Changes: The EMAIL_LIMIT model was changed to apply to scanning source
addresses only instead of also factoring in the destination address. The
original src/dst email limit behavior can be restored by setting a new
variable "ENABLE_EMAIL_LIMIT_PER_DST" to "Y". The
patches/iptables-1.3.8_LOG_prefix_space.patch file was added, which can be
applied to the iptables-1.3.8 code to enforce a trailing space character
before any log prefix when a LOG rule is added. A fix was implemented to
ensure that parsing TCP options does not descend into an infinite loop in
some some circumstances with obscure or maliciously constructed options.

About: Quack is a GNOME interface for jaiku.com. It allows you to set your
location and send messages, and it also shows notifications when your
contacts post new messages.

Changes: The message handling was made more robust. Authentication was
added to all requests, so users that only show jaikus to their contacts
should work as well. All updates from a user are correctly shown even if
the user makes multiple posts within a short time. An initial icon view of
all contacts was added. At the moment, it has no actual function. Runtime
bugs were fixed, so that it should now actually be possible to run the
program.

About: RESTORE is an enterprise network backup and recovery solution for
Windows, Novell, Mac OS X (data fork), Unix, and Linux systems. It is
scalable to a complete backup solution for multiple workstations, servers,
and data centers. It operates over local area networks, wide area networks,
and the Internet.

About: Sockso is a personal music server for everyone. It's designed to be
as simple as possible so that anyone with a mouse and some MP3s can get
their friends listening to their music across the Internet in minutes.

Changes: The option to disable downloading of music has been added. Sockso
will now respond to user specific locales, and displays in the correct
language where the appropriate translation exists. A page-embedded Flash
player has been added to improve Sockso on the Wii. Sockso now encodes
content with gzip when it can, so the speed of the interface is much
improved. Many bugfixes and minor tweaks were done.

About: Task Coach is a simple todo manager to manage personal tasks and
todo lists. It grew out of a frustration that well-known task managers,
such as those provided with Outlook or Lotus Notes, do not provide
facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things to do
consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with
composite tasks.

Changes: This bugfix release fixes one critical bug that affects users on
the Windows platform and several minor bugs that affect users on all
platforms.

About: TuxWordSmith is a Scrabble game that uses xdxf dictionaries in
multiple languages. It supports Unicode in the GUI. It is a sister
application to TuxMathScrabble. A screensaver mode pits one computer
player against another computer player for endless Scrabble, providing
entertainment and exposure to new vocabulary.

Changes: Game pieces are now created dynamically, on demand, allowing more
flexibility among languages. Notably, Cyrillic (Russian) fonts are now
available for game pieces. Transparent overlays are now used to display
other feedback information.

About: WANem can be used to emulate wide area network conditions in a LAN
environment. It can emulate network characteristics like Bandwidth,
latency, loss, disconnection, duplication, reordering, asymmetric
networks, etc. It is distributed in the form of a bootable CD.

Changes: Delay and loss and other parameters could not be emulated
simultaneously. This has been fixed. The r2q parameter was fixed in the
htb queue. This will improve accuracy in emulation of bandwidth less than
120kbps. MTU may be fixed to 1500 in the init script to enable this
change. The status command was fixed. When running multiple rule sets, it
did not calculate the number of rules correctly and gave out the message
"No running .... rules".

About: Xfce4 Sensors Plugin is a plugin for the Xfce 4 panel that shows
selected sensors' values. If hddtemp is installed, it can also monitor
your hard drives.

Changes: This version comes with a new interface. lmsensors and hddtemp
and acpi interfaces are determined at compile time. Major bugs were fixed.
Code cleanup was done. Speed improvements were made. A maintainer's guide
was written for the new configure script.

About: xl2tpd a Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) daemon. It supports
IPsec SA reference tracking, which enables the IPsec stacks to support
multiple l2tp clients behind the same NAT router and multiple l2tp clients
on the same internal IP address. It is a fork of "l2tpd".

About: XySSL is a cryptographic library written in C. It currently
features several ciphers (AES, Triple-DES, and ARC4), hash functions
(MD{2,4,5}, SHA-1, and SHA-256), and RSA and X.509 reading support. It
also implements the Secure Sockets Layer version 3 protocol (SSLv3), as
well as the Transport Layer Security version 1 protocol.

Changes: This release features important bugfixes in the bignum and
SSL/TLS handling code, which corrects compatibility issues with OpenSSL
and MS CryptoAPI. It also includes preliminary support for the VIA PadLock
and X.509 certificate writing. The library configuration file has been
simplified and offers better support for embedded targets.